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A Forgotten Royal Hymn to Marduk and Its Historical Background T A Forgotten Royal Hymn to Marduk and Its Historical Background T. Oshima Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena The fragment DT 71 from the Kouyunjik Tablet Collection of the British Museum is the right bottom corner of a tablet, probably a single column tablet of unknown length. The manuscript is written in Neo-Assyrian script, but it is very likely a copy of an older text. The language is so-called Standard Babylonian. These facts mean that we can rely on neither its script nor its linguistic characteristics in dating this text to any particular period. As the fragment preserves a small portion of the original text, the exact nature of the text is not certain either. Yet, judging from what has survived, although there is no divine name preserved except for that of Girra, it seems that this manuscript preserves a royal hymn to a male deity, most likely Marduk, commemorat- ing the victory of a Babylonian king over the Elamites with his assistance.1 It is also possible that this was a part of a narrative text recounting a war against the Elamites. The text was first edited by H. Winckler, in Altorientalische Forschungen 1 (1893–97), 540–42. Later, J. Hehn published his hand copy of this text as well as his edition in “Hymnen und Gebete an Marduk,” Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semi- tischen Sprachwissenschaft 5 (1905), 326–29 and 386–88. His copy is relatively accurate. Since then, DT 71 has been long neglected except for the short discussion by J. Roberts in 1977.2 This article is an attempt to up-date the reading and understand- ing of the text based on a collation in the British Museum and to discuss the historical background of the event described in it. The article is based on the present writer’s Hebrew University Ph.D. dissertation, Hymns and Prayers to Marduk, submitted in 2003. During the process of revision of the dissertation for publication, the edition of DT 71 was excluded because it was no longer relevant to the new focus of the monograph, Babylonian Prayers to Marduk (Tübingen, 2011). The manuscript DT 71 was re-collated and photographed during the present writer’s stay in London in summer 2006 as a short-term fellow of the British Academy and the article was completed when he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. I am very grateful for generous grants from the British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Fund. I would also like to thank my host in London, SOAS and Prof. Andrew R. George, as well as my host in Germany, Altorientalisches Institut, Universität Leipzig, and Prof. Michael P. Streck. The photographs of DT 71 are published here with generous permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. I thank them for their kind permission to collate the tablet fragment and to publish the photographs. 1. J. Hehn clearly considered this text to be either a hymn or a prayer to Marduk because he edited it with other hymns and prayers to Marduk. For further discussion, see below. 2. J. J. M. Roberts, “Nebuchadnezzar I’s Elamite Crisis in Theological Perspective,” in M. de Jong Ellis, ed., Essays on the Ancient Near East in Memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein, Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 19 (Hamden, 1977), 183–87. 107 108 JANES 32 It seems that the text was divided into several sections—each section recounts an episode. The first section is too fragmentary to glean even a hint of the content de- scribed. A new section starts at line 5′. Lines 5′–8′ are written in the precative mode, asking permission to recount the god’s heroism. After this plea, the composition first refers to the mercy of a male deity (obv. 9′) and then to reconciliation with “me” through “my” prayer (obv. 9′–15′)3 while the enemy, most likely the Elamites, speak insolently, probably eliciting the wrath of the god. The god punishes the enemy with total destruction (obv. 16′–rev. 21). This is probably an allusion to a victory against the Elamites, which the author of this composition credits to the triumph of the de- ity addressed in this text. From line 16′, the narrator addresses the god in the second masculine singular (note the prefixes of verbs and pronominal suffixes). In spite of the broken lines, it seems that the rev. 22 is, like obv. 5′, the beginning of a new section— another introduction to a new episode that is yet to be recovered. Below are a new edition of DT 71 (transliteration, translation, and commentary) and a discussion of the possible historical background. Transliteration Obverse 1′. ] × [×(×)] 2′. TA]R-ri-[ma?] 3′. ] × U4-e 4′. ] × ˹A?˺ [×]-×-DE-E-šú 5′. lu-na-ʾ-id-ma i-lut-su lud-b]u-ba [da]n-nu-us-su 6′. q]u-ru-us-s[u] lud-lul 7′. lu-na-ʾ-id i-l]ut-su lud-bu-ba dan-nu-us-su 8′. ]-šú qu-ru-us-su lud-lul 9′. DINGIR? ta]-˹a-a˺-ru ša na-as-ḫur-šú qer-bu 10′. ]-˹a˺-a TE-su id-da-a iš-ku-na sa-li-mu 11′. ] ŠÀ-ba-šú ir-šu-ú ta-a-a-ru 12′. i-nu-ma iš-ta-mu]-˹ú˺ un-nin-ni-ia ú-saḫ-ḫi-ra ki-šad-su 13′. ŠÀ-ba-š]u ip-šá-ḫa ir-šá-a sa-li-mu 14′. e-la-m]u?-ú ša la pit-lu-ḫu GAL-tu DINGIR-us-su 15′. a-na?] DINGIR-ti-šú sir-tum iq-bu-ú me-re-eḫ-tu 16′. ik-du]-us-su gišTUKUL-ka a-na e-la-me-e muš-tar-ḫi 17′. ] ERÉNḫi.a-šú tu-par-ri-ir el-lat-su 18′. UN.ME]Š? di-šá-a-ti tu-bal-li la-aʾ-meš 19′. ] GAL-a a-bu-ba-niš tas-pu-un 20′. t]u-šaḫ-ri (text ḪU)-ba tu-šá-ad-di KUR-su 21′. ] × tas-pu-na til-la-niš tu-t[i]r Reverse 1. ] DI[NGIR].MEŠ šá šá-ʾi-lu 2. ] MU kar-pa-niš taḫ-pi 3. KUR nu-kúr]-ti šu-uḫ-ru-bat bit-lat 3. For further discussion, see below. Oshima: A Forgotten Royal Hymn to Marduk 109 4. n]in-da-bu-u pa-ri-is-ma 5. ] × la-mas-su-uš id-dal 6. n]é-me-eq-šú šu-up-pu-uḫ 7. KUR nu-kúr-ti] šu-ku-lat dGIŠ.BAR 8. ] × kar-pa-niš taḫ-pi 9. T]I BALA-a-šú tas-kip 10. ] × ú-šar-ri-ḫa ra-man-šú 11. ] × it-tak-lu e-mu-qu 12. l]a iḫ-su-sa DINGIR-ut-ka 13. ik]-šu-du-uš gišTUKUL.MEŠ-ka 14. ] × KUR nu-kúr-ti ú-ab-bit 15. ] el-si-iš tu-par-ri-ir 16. tu-ḫ]al-li-qa ni-ip-ri-šú 17. ] BALA-a-šú tas-kip 18. ] za-ma-na-a tu-ḫal-liq 19. ] zi-kir-ka kab-tum 20. ] ḪU la as-su-ru ma-mit-su 21. ] ˹A?˺ ḪU (prob. an error for -ti) tu-bal-li la-ʾa-meš 22. lud-bu-b]a dan-nu-us-su 23. lud-lu]l? zi-kir-šú 24. ] × mug-da-áš-ru 25. ] re-su-ú-ti 26. ana?] za-aʾ-i-ri-ia 27. lud-lul?] zi-kir-˹šú˺ 28. ] × PA × [ . 29. ] × [ . Translation4 Obverse 1′–4′ are poorly preserved. 5′. let me extol his divinity, let me t]alk about his [st]rength, . ] let me praise hi[s he]roism, . let me extol] his [di]vinity, let me talk about his strength, . ] his [. .] let me praise his heroism. the god? of compa]ssion, whose benevolent attention is near. 10′. ] my [. .] he inclined his head (lit. cheek) to me, he established peace for me. ] his heart found (lit. got) compassion, . when he hear]d my prayer, he turned his head (lit. neck) to me. h]is [heart] became calm, he found (lit. got) peace for me, . the Elami]tes who were not afraid of his great divinity, 15′. against] his magnificent divinity, they spoke insolently. .] your weapon [reached hi]m, the vainglorious Elamite, . ] his army, you scattered his horde, . ] you brought [his] numerous [peopl]e to an end like glowing ashes. ] The great [. .], you leveled like a deluge. 20′. y]ou laid waste, you had his land be in ruins, . ] you leveled, you turned into a ruin. 4. The words in italics indicate uncertain readings and renderings. 110 JANES 32 Reverse 1. ] go[d]s of the dream interpreters, . ] you shattered like a pot. the hostile lan]d is devastated (and) brought to an end, . f]ood offering is cut off. 5. ] his Lamassu-spirit is wandering around, . ] his [w]isdom is overturned, . the hostile land] is consumed (by) the Fire(-god). ] you shattered like a pot. ] his dynasty, you set aside. 10. ] he made himself self-important (he boasted ?). ] the strength has been consumed. ] he [was] not mindful of your divinity. ] your weapons [r]eached him. ] the hostile land, it destroyed. 15. ] joyfully, you scattered. you put a]n end to his offspring. ] his dynasty, you set aside. ] you put an end to my foe. ] your honorable name, 20. whose] oath I did not keep. ] you brought [his numerous? people?] to an end like glowing ashes. Let me spe]ak of his strength, . Let me praise?] his name, . ] mighty, 25. ] help, . against?] my enemy, . Let me praise] h[is] name, 28–29 are too damaged to read.
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